Nevada County picayune., 1887-09-01
Comparisons.

bCbo VI A/VVoit ""o DAp@N VI in tue presence of three thousand Knights and Wheelers at Augusta, Woodruff county, on the Fourth of July, in illustrating the condition of the country, and we presume to show tha, ti,e Republicans are the only truly good people who ever held power in Arkansas instituted the following comparison: u
 "In 1868 the state of Arkansas was under the control of the Re. publican party. They paid the gov ernOr S5OOO. ln 1874 the Demo. cratic party obtained control of the State and fixed the governors pay at a35O0. There has been some change since that time and it is now fixed at ?3O0O. Now suppose the law of the state should have read that all salaries shonld be paid in cotton. It would have ta- ken about fifty bales of cotton per annum to pay MT. Clayton's and Hadley's salaries, You know farmers that your cotton was worth an average Ofabout S1O0 per bale from 1868 to 1873. Now sup. pose the same law existed. How much cotton would it take to pay the salary of your governor, Hon. Simon F. Hughes, at the present pricesi lfyou will take the time to lay aside your partisan hate and the calculation you will find that it actually takes from 20 to p bales more cotton to pay the governors salary of 1886, than did the gover. nor's salary of lS6S"
 1 Well, here goes. We have very carefully laid aside our partisan hate and laid a saw log on it to hold it down, and it seems that the Hon IsOm's mathematics are cor. rect. But suppose the Democratic party had not obtained control and reduced the salaries. By Isom's figures it would require l25 bales per annum to pay the governor now, so you see that the one gal hIused Democracy is saving 30 bales per annum. See the point?
 , Again, suppose the law, the sal. ary and the Republicans still re. mained, aud they continued the quaint custom of receiving their salaries in State scrip, six dollars for one as was the case when they were in power, and then suppose that State scrip should jump to par, as it did under Democratic rule, it would take 75O bales to pay the Republican governors salary each year, therefore, we might well say that the old red-mouthed De. mocracy are saving 675 bales per annum in this way.
 I Again, suppose our good Friends the Republicans, still held the reins of State government and their school law approved July 23rd, 1868, was still in force with it's ten circuit superintendents of instruc, 1 tiOn with salary of 5000 each and expenses, making forty thOus. and dollars per annum, paid ont of the school fund. But the law is repealed, a better one that costs nothing for circuit and county su' perintendents fills it's place. The Democrats are in power, and one thousand bales of cotton are saved to the taxpayers and their children each year. See.
 Again the State has double the population it had in lS6S.14, yet public business done honestly and | faithfully by the same number ol Democratic officers, whose salaries lack *31 800 per annum of reach ing the salaries paid the Re publi cans, thereby saving to the people 525 bales of cotton, the bagging and ties and two hundred and eigh. ', ty pounds of seed cotton in the pen.
 Now, we might go on indefinite 4 ly adding bale to bale nntil We dem | fonstrated the fact that the Demo. cratic party has not only saved all the cotton that ever was saved to the American farmer but has actu ally saved the country several times, and means to save 1t again in 1888 with Uncle Grover and others. When it comes to cotton statistics, Mir Langley should tro, out something superior to the Re publican outfit of lS6S-I4 to com pare to the double breasted Demo cracy.-Sharp Co. Record.